Sunderland begin crucial run of games and want winning start against Leicester

Sunderland's Duncan Watmore (left).

Roy Kelly

Published:08:15Friday 02 December 2016

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Duncan Watmore says Sunderland are fully aware of the sequence of winnable games this month.

Sunderland face Leicester, Swansea and Watford on consecutive Saturdays this month and all three rate as target matches – starting with tomorrow’s visit of the Premier League champions to the Stadium of Light.

How the Black Cats need as many points as they can get after returning to the basement last weekend.

“We know that as a team,” said the in-form Watmore.

“We are working hard on the training pitch to make sure we take that momentum from the last few matches, use that in the right way going into challenging these games.

“Ultimately, we are going for wins and that’s how it should be.

“We need to climb the table and everyone at the club is fully focused on that.”

Sunderland are chasing successive home league wins for the first time since May.

David Moyes’s team had to ride their luck, at times, before pulling clear to beat Hull 3-0 last time at the Stadium of Light.

Watmore is urging patience but add, when the chances come, they must take them.

“It’s important we don’t get too frustrated if it isn’t going too well at the start or certain periods in the game,” said the England U21 star.

“It’s never going to go perfectly for 90 minutes in the Premier League.

“You just have to be resilient at the times when it is not going well and then, when you get your chance, you have to be clinical, as we were against Hull.”